sp3 and USB Drive Letters

[ToddAndMargo]

Hi All,

I have read the service pack 3 white paper. I
have not found a reference to this problem.

Does anyone out there with the beta of SP3
know it fixes the bug where a USB thumb drive letter
will clobber a network drive letter?

Many thanks,
-T

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

There is an SP3 beta newsgroup at microsoft.beta.windows.xp_sp3. You have
to register on connect before you can gain access to it. I have seen this
discussed there.

 

[ToddAndMargo]

There is an SP3 beta newsgroup at microsoft.beta.windows.xp_sp3. You
have to register on connect before you can gain access to it. I have
seen this discussed there.

Cool. Thank you!

--T

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

You're welcome.

Cool. Thank you!

--T

 

[Uwe Sieber]

Hi All,

I have read the service pack 3 white paper. I
have not found a reference to this problem.

Does anyone out there with the beta of SP3
know it fixes the bug where a USB thumb drive letter
will clobber a network drive letter?

Yes, with SP3-RC1 I have not seen this problem anymore.
For XP-SP2 there is a hotfix since December 2007:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=830238


Uwe

 

[ToddAndMargo]

Yes, with SP3-RC1 I have not seen this problem anymore.
For XP-SP2 there is a hotfix since December 2007:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=830238


Uwe

Thank you!

 

[John H Meyers]

Yes, with SP3-RC1 I have not seen this problem anymore.
For XP-SP2 there is a hotfix since December 2007:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=830238

Maybe http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297694

Uwe's own software solutions are also marvelous,
but I found that the manual work-around in KB 297694
solves it fine for me (it even persists across reboots):

1. Right-click My Computer, and then click Manage.
2. Under Computer Management (Local), click Disk Management.
3. In the list of drives in the right pane, right-click the new drive
and then click Change Drive Letter and Path(s).
4. Click Change, and in the drop-down box, select a drive letter
for the new drive that is not assigned to a mapped network drive.
5. Click OK, and then click OK again.

For example, I assigned the four "drives" of a "multi-card" reader
to T, U, V and W, which persist across all removal/reconnect/reboot,
and I have never again had a conflict with a network drive mapping.

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